Evolutionary Ecology - Virtual Archive of Past Featured Papers
These featured papers have been selected by the Editor-in-Chief as being of particular interest to readers of Evolutionary Ecology, either because they address an issue of broad ecological interest, or a system that has not previously been well studied. Featured papers are also in part chosen on the basis of how often they have been viewed in the first few weeks after appearing online. Also we strive to feature the work of early career researchers – as part of our Student & Early Career Researchers incentive (this opens in a new tab) scheme.
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2024
April/May
- Mother strawberry poison frogs might supplement nutritive eggs with secretory provisioning (this opens in a new tab)
- Four’s a crowd: social preferences for larger groups in golden mantella (Mantella aurantiaca) tadpoles (this opens in a new tab) (Open access)
February/March
2023
December/January
- Tests of reproductive skew theory: a review and prospectus (this opens in a new tab) (Open Access)
- The role of pictorial cues and contrast for camouflage (this opens in a new tab) (Open Access)
October/November
- Catching the red eye: field evidence that artificial prey with red eye-like markings are preferentially avoided by avian predators (this opens in a new tab)
Nest Integration: a novel form of food acquisition by altricial fledglings (this opens in a new tab)
August/September
- Effects of predator associative learning and innate aversion on mimicry complexes (this opens in a new tab)
- It is about time: effects of thermal fluctuations resulting from climate change on trophic interactions with a focus on host–parasitoid interactions (this opens in a new tab) (Open Access)
June/July
- A well-studied parasitoid fly of field crickets uses multiple alternative hosts in its introduced range (this opens in a new tab)
- The orchid mantis exhibits high ontogenetic colouration variety and intersexual life history differences (this opens in a new tab)
April/May
- Experimental evidence in a poison frog model suggests that tadpole transport on the dorsum may affects warning signal effectiveness in poison frogs (this opens in a new tab)
- Urban-rural gradients: how landscape changes drive adaptive evolution of plant competitive traits (this opens in a new tab)
February/March
- A call for more ecologically and evolutionarily relevant studies of immune costs (this opens in a new tab)
- Genomic heterozygosity is associated with parasite abundance, but the effects are not mediated by host condition (this opens in a new tab)
2022
December/January
October/November
May/June
- Dangerous visions: a review of visual antipredator strategies in spiders (this opens in a new tab)
- Impact of developmental temperatures on thermal plasticity and repeatability of metabolic rate (this opens in a new tab) (Open Access)
February/March
- Predator-based selection and the impact of edge sympatry on components of coral snake mimicry (this opens in a new tab)
- Sexual dichromatism in a cryptic poison frog is correlated with female tadpole transport (this opens in a new tab)
2021
December/January
October/November
- Different stress from parasites and mate choice in two female morphs of the blue-tailed damselfly (this opens in a new tab)
- Reproductive trade-offs in the colorado checkered whiptail lizard (Aspidoscelis neotesselatus): an examination of the relationship between clutch and follicle size (this opens in a new tab)
August/September
- Effect of habitat permanence on life-history: extending the Daphnia model into new climate spaces (this opens in a new tab)
- Ecological predictors of lateral line asymmetry in stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) (this opens in a new tab)
June/July
- Lichen moths do not benefit from ‘element imitation’ masquerade in the absence of a matching background (this opens in a new tab)
- Sex- and trait-specific silver-spoon effects of developmental environments, on ageing (this opens in a new tab)
April/May
- Eye‐body allometry across biphasic ontogeny in anuran amphibians (this opens in a new tab) (Open Access)
- Supergroup F Wolbachia in terrestrial isopods: Horizontal transmission from termites? (this opens in a new tab)
February/March
- Social interaction, and not group size, predicts parasite burden in mammals (this opens in a new tab)
- When animal coloration is a poor match (this opens in a new tab) (Open Access)
2020
December
- Behavioural response to simulated avian predation varies with latitude and predation intensity of natural populations (this opens in a new tab)
- Is variation in flower shape and length among native and non-native populations of Nicotiana glauca a product of pollinator-mediated selection? (this opens in a new tab)
October/November
- Assessment of the dunnocks’ introduction to New Zealand using innate immune-gene diversity (this opens in a new tab)
- Heritable variation in the timing of emergence from hibernation (this opens in a new tab)
June/July
- Disrupting the disruptors: the consequences of mutations in mobile elements for ecologically important life history traits (this opens in a new tab)
- The effect of environmental heterogeneity on the fitness of antibiotic resistance mutations in Escherichia coli (this opens in a new tab)
February/March
2019
December
August/September
June/July
April/May
February/March
2018
December
October/November
September
August